To those concerned about language in contemporary society, jargon has understandably become a repulsive term signifying a cloudy, pretentious insider's language subdivided into ugly types such as psychobabble, educationese, sociologese, and bureaucratese.

To put it another way, in the peremptorily utopian style typical of official Chinese directives as well as of educationese the world over, the nation’s schools must strive “to build citizens’ character in an all-round way, gear their efforts to each and every student, give full scope to students’ ideological, moral, cultural and scientific potentials and raise their labor skills and physical and psychological aptitudes, achieve vibrant student development and run themselves with distinction.”